{"id":12692,"date":"2018-08-24T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T01:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2018-08-29T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T02:25:07","slug":"epa-admits-trumps-dirty-power-plan-will-kill-thousands-of-americans-bradcast-8242018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12692","title":{"rendered":"EPA Admits Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Dirty Power Plan&#8217; Will Kill Thousands of Americans: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/24\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpDigsCoalHuntingtonWV082118_082418.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Before we get to our guest on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, a number of news items (and that may be an understatement) of note. [<i>Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<ul>\n<li>First, the latest in the quickening collapse of the Trump Presidency, as his darkest week gets darker by the day, now including the Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/24\/us\/politics\/allen-weisselberg-immunity-cohen-trump.html\">reportedly<\/a> being granted immunity to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their ongoing probe(s) of all manner of criminality by Donald J. Trump and his 2016 campaign;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hurricane Lane is already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dramatic-photos-show-hurricane-lane-hits-hawaii-2018-8\">wreaking havoc<\/a> in Hawaii as it very slowly sweeps near the islands, dumping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-news\/hawaii-hurricane-lane-latest-storm-forecast-path-track-weather-live-updates-2018-08-24\/\">catastrophic<\/a> amounts of rain (35 inches in 48 hours on the Big Island!) in its wake; And, speaking of Hawaii, listeners answer our call in response to a question we had yesterday regarding a slang Hawaiian term used by Sen. Mazie Hirono&#8217;s (D-HI) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/8\/22\/1790114\/-Senator-cancels-Supreme-Court-nominee-meeting-cites-Trump-being-an-unindicted-co-conspirator\">cancelling<\/a> her planned meeting with Trump&#8217;s U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maziehirono\/status\/1032290595795021824\">charging<\/a> that &#8220;an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal matter, does not deserve the courtesy of a meeting with his nominee &#8212; purposely selected to protect, as we say in Hawaii, his own <i>okole<\/i>&#8220;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator John McCain&#8217;s family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/sen-john-mccain-battling-brain-cancer-is-discontinuing-medical-treatment\/2018\/08\/24\/bfd2ca3e-a7af-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?utm_term=.7d56875017e8\">announced<\/a> on Friday that he will no longer accept medical treatment in his year long battle against terminal brain cancer. We discuss, a bit, what that could mean for Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee in advance of Arizona&#8217;s midterm primaries, with Gov. Doug Ducey (R), who would appoint McCain&#8217;s successor, on the ballot next Tuesday. Also, we note, the President&#8217;s appalling recent behavior towards the ailing Senator;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Ohio&#8217;s 12th Congressional District, Troy Balderson (R) is finally officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2018\/08\/24\/ohio-special-election-results-could-come-today\/1043190002\/\">declared<\/a> the winner over Danny O&#8217;Connor (D) in the U.S. House Special election held nearly three weeks ago. Balderson is said to have won by a razor-thin 1,680 votes out of more than 200,000 votes cast on the 100% unverifiable touchscreen systems used on Election Day in the previously very Republican district. The margin is just over the amount that would have triggered an automatic, state-sponsored &#8220;recount&#8221;.  The two candidates will face off yet again in November&#8217;s general election, when a number of factors, as we discuss, could tip the advantage to O&#8217;Connor;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, in Georgia, as we predicted on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12691\">yesterday&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the Randolph County Board of Elections <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a89d9cbfe4a1490f86e418aeb023c644\">quickly rejected<\/a> a proposal to shutter 7 of 9 precincts in the majority African-American county in advance of the November midterms. The scheme, which used the pretext of violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), was proffered by a consultant hired by the County at the recommendation of GOP Sec. of State Brian Kemp. The plan had drawn national outrage in a year when Kemp is running for Governor against Stacey Abrams, who could become the nation&#8217;s first female African-American chief of state;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then, as the nation is justifiably distracted by a Presidency quickly spiraling out of control, his policies continue to move forward nonetheless, including this week&#8217;s major new (if little covered) Trump EPA proposal to &#8220;repeal and replace&#8221; Obama&#8217;s landmark 2015 &#8220;Clean Power Plan&#8221;, which would otherwise reduce deadly and climate change causing emissions from coal-fired power plants with something the Administration is calling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/stationary-sources-air-pollution\/proposal-affordable-clean-energy-ace-rule\">&#8220;Affordable Clean Energy Rule&#8221;<\/a>. By the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/21\/climate\/epa-coal-pollution-deaths.html\">Administration&#8217;s <i>own admissions<\/i><\/a>, the Trump scheme would lead annually to at least 1,400 premature American deaths over Obama&#8217;s plan, and result in tens of thousands of news cases of respiratory illness each year.<\/p>\n<p><b>CONRAD SCHNEIDER<\/b>, former U.S. Dept. of Justice trial attorney and current Advocacy Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catf.us\/about\/staff\/bios\/conrad_schneider.php\">at the non-profit Clean Air Task Force<\/a> and lecturer on Environmental Law and Policy at Maine&#8217;s Bowdoin College, joins us to explain the dangers &#8212; and coal-industry corruption &#8212; of what he calls the EPA&#8217;s new &#8220;Dirty Power Plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands and thousands of Americans would die prematurely under the Trump plan whose lives would have been saved under the Obama plan,&#8221; Schneider warns. &#8220;And that&#8217;s just the tip of a pyramid of health effects that include hospital visits, emergency room visits, asthma attacks, children missing school days and adults missing work as a result of the pollution that would occur here&#8221; in what he describes as &#8220;just the latest of [Trump&#8217;s] efforts to try to resuscitate the coal industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, he also cautions, &#8220;this political promise&#8221; to the industry &#8220;runs headlong into the requirements of the Clean Air Act&#8221; and so, Schneider predicts, the plan may well face problems in court, where he promises, &#8220;we&#8217;ll be arguing that as much as they might want to throw a lifeline to coal, the Clean Air Act is not the appropriate venue to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are doing here is we are fiddling while the planet burns. We&#8217;re fighting things in court, when we really don&#8217;t have the time to waste,&#8221; he tells me, as we discuss why it is that the Trump Administration&#8217;s many attempts at reversing Obama Administration environmental protections &#8212; from water rules, to chemical plant safety regulations, to the Keystone XL pipeline (to name only a few from the past few weeks) &#8212; continue to be <a href=\"We'll be arguing to the court that as much as they might want to throw a lifeline to coal, the Clean Air Act is not the appropriate venue to do that.\">blocked, overturned or delayed<\/a>, by one federal court after another&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpCollapse_HurricaneLane_JohnMcCain_OH12_ConradSchnieder_TrumpEPACoalPlan_082418.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpCollapse_HurricaneLane_JohnMcCain_OH12_ConradSchnieder_TrumpEPACoalPlan_082418.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get to our guest on today&#8217;s BradCast, a number of news items (and that may be an understatement) of note. 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